This might just be a self-fulfilling prophecy. By lowering the gate so far in advance, they may have created a culture of casual disregard FOR the gate. People there have been trained that the gate comes down well before its actually needed, so they disregard it. The end result is that a situation is being created where the gates actually reduce safety.

In the US, the gate comes down, and 9 times out of 10, a train follows 10 or so seconds later, at least where I live. So we stop.

Worth1000 seems to be full of really good photoshoppers... who have a poor sense of humor.

Something Awful, on the other hand, seems to have 'shoppers that use cruder techniques, but are brilliantly funny.

Is this an overgeneralization?

Based on YouTube popularity, it's puzzling that CSS isn't mentioned. 100+ million indicated views seems to merit some sort of recognition, even if there's controversy over the numbers.